09-18-2012, 05:00 PM
Where on earth do you find a puzzle as bizarre as this?
I'm going to guess the captain, wanting to keep his career first and foremost, offers two of the crew 15 "beam profilers" each to go along with his plan. But it really makes no sense... can this be rephrased in a more conventional way?
However, that solution doesn't make sense because the 3 who get nothing would just badmouth the captain and the other two, thus destroying their careers... so I'm going to go against my initial answer and suggest the captain keeps none and splits the beam profilers evenly distributing 6 amongst the other 5, to buy everyone's silence.
This puzzle just seems to be missing an element.
Or rather, maybe the missing element is the question - it's not how it's split overall, it's how many the CAPTAIN can keep. I'm assuming the agreement made by the pirates is binding, i.e. the captain can't get 2 guys to agree to take 15 each then the captain just keeps 30 himself?
In either case I think the captain ends up keeping 7. That's my final answer. I can't explain why.
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I'm going to guess the captain, wanting to keep his career first and foremost, offers two of the crew 15 "beam profilers" each to go along with his plan. But it really makes no sense... can this be rephrased in a more conventional way?
However, that solution doesn't make sense because the 3 who get nothing would just badmouth the captain and the other two, thus destroying their careers... so I'm going to go against my initial answer and suggest the captain keeps none and splits the beam profilers evenly distributing 6 amongst the other 5, to buy everyone's silence.
This puzzle just seems to be missing an element.
Or rather, maybe the missing element is the question - it's not how it's split overall, it's how many the CAPTAIN can keep. I'm assuming the agreement made by the pirates is binding, i.e. the captain can't get 2 guys to agree to take 15 each then the captain just keeps 30 himself?
In either case I think the captain ends up keeping 7. That's my final answer. I can't explain why.
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